Unpackaged Open Font of the Week: Selfism

Selfism is a decorative typeface that mimics the look of an electronic display (like an LED clock.) It has both a regular and a bold weight. Selfism’s homepage has an interesting type treatment – in general I think Selfism, as a decorative font, can be used to provide a retro technologically-savvy feel to non-essential text in a print layout or webpage. You could also use it in an artistic type treatment of course. Actually, to be honest, you could use it to give text a shopping receipt look…

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About Máirín Duffy

Máirín is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat. She is passionate about software freedom and free & open source tools, particularly in the creative domain: her favorite application is Inkscape. You can read more from Máirín on her blog at blog.linuxgrrl.com.

It would not be better. Most of the font packaging work is the legal and technical review of each font file. Putting a “load” of fonts in a single package is not going to make this work any smaller, it will just create a huge unmaintainable pile of bitrotting files people are afraid of touching and no one quite knows where to start maintenance work at.

(see also: ctan and texlive. Fedora is still stuck at texlive 2007 because the “load” of files translated in something no one could sanely review and update in a finite amount of time)

One package per font family is the only way to divide the work in small manageable pieces.

A distribution like Fedora is not a file dump, if you want a huge pile of fonts with unclear licensing conditions and variable technical levels dafont and friends are available now.

it would be nice if the FOSS community pulled together and created a website/web application+database of fully free fonts + a suite of programs (really just programs for GTK+ and Qt application platforms) that could pull in the fonts the user wants in a user friendly way (for example, the ubuntu software center lets you easily install applications). Advanced users like me could always go back to a package manager or the command line anyway🙂.

But, yeah, basically I think that would make life easier in relation to fonts.

P.S. I am a bit of a font junky xD… I recently looked through the fonts I could use in a document I was writing and declared on twitter: “Too many fonts… time to get more”

Oh I see what you’re saying now because of Nicolas’ and khudsa’s comments. I misunderstood.

If you wanted to group fonts together at least in Fedora we have or could do a fonts package group so you can install individual fonts or the whole group of them – although yum install *fonts* -y is not difficult either.